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ROBERT CAESAR CHILDERS (1838-1876)

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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 138 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ROBERT See also:CAESAR See also:CHILDERS (1838-1876)  , See also:English See also:Oriental See also:scholar, son of the Rev . See also:Charles See also:Childers, English See also:chaplain at See also:Nice, was See also:born in 1838 . In 186o he received an See also:appointment in the See also:civil service of See also:Ceylon, which he retained until 1864, when he was compelled to return to See also:England owing to See also:ill-See also:health . He had studied See also:Pali during his See also:residence in Ceylon, under Yatrramulle UnnSnse, a learned Buddhist for whom he cherished a See also:life-See also:long respect, and he had gained an insight into the Sinhalese See also:character and ways of thought . In 1869 he published the first Pali See also:text ever printed in England, and began to prepare a Pali See also:dictionary, the first See also:volume of which was published in 1872, and the second and concluding volume in 1875 . In the following See also:year it was awarded the See also:Volney See also:prize by the See also:Institute of See also:France, as being the most important philological See also:work of the year . He was a frequent contributor to the See also:Journal of the Royal See also:Asiatic Society, in which he published the Maha-parinibbana Sutta, the Pali text giving the See also:account of the last days of See also:Buddha's life . In 1872 he was appointed sub-librarian at the See also:India See also:Office, and in the following year he became the first See also:professor of Pali and Buddhist literature at University See also:College, See also:London . He died in London on the 25th of See also:July 1876 .

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